Colson Lin

Writer-philosopher. I explore law, literature, ethics, and the tests and claims of messianism across essays, fiction, poetry, and public conversation—stated plainly, argued hard.

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Featured: Discography

The master index to the whole musicless project: every studio LP, deluxe edition, EP, single, box set, live album, era campaign, and promo book from August 2024 onward, with release dates, track lists, asterisks for covers, and daggers for bonus material. Every other work on this page is cross-referenced here.

Featured: The Depositions

A comedic play in which Lin sues The New York Times for failing to acknowledge his Second Coming claim. Posits a cosmology where the universe repeats with slight variations, so the actors really haven’t done this before. Built around a Gen Z composite, “Tumblerina.”

Below is the full public-domain library indexed in the sitemap. Everything is free to read, download, and quote.

Musicless Albums (LPs)

ÜbermenschLP2 (December 7, 2024). The messianic-rise record; includes “Paradise Lost,” “Son of Babylon,” and “Cyberpunk Noir Modern.”
DaybreakLP3 (February 12, 2025). The post-revelation morning record; includes “Party Like It’s Actually Over,” “Shaman,” and “Daybreak.”
Sex, Depth, & MoneyLP5 (May 4, 2025). The appetites record; includes “The Lion and the Lamb,” “Chainsaw Jim,” and “Video Games.”
Holy DickLP6 (July 5, 2025). An interlude-driven record built around “Holy Dick” and “Jobless Bum.”
Lightning in a Houston SummerLP7 (December 7, 2025). Includes “Icarus,” “Lightning in a Houston Summer,” and “Manic Pixie Dream Prophet.”
Lightning in a Houston Summer: The SignaturesLP7-D1 (December 10, 2025). Twenty-seven-track expansion of Lightning in a Houston Summer with ten bonus “signatures,” including “Bigotry.”
Thunder in Winter’s ConnecticutThe winter counterpoint to Lightning; includes “Tokyo Rose,” “Mafioso Pool Shark,” and “Wintergreen.” Also serves as Disc 2 of The Variants.
Lightning in a Houston Summer: The VariantsLP7-D2 (December 24, 2025). Three-disc deluxe edition pairing Lightning in a Houston Summer, Thunder in Winter’s Connecticut, and The Thunder B-Sides.

Musicless EPs and Singles

“Lightning in a Houston Summer” (single)Title-track single from the Lightning era; the lightning-prophecy reference (Matthew 24:27) Lin returns to throughout later work.
“Holy Dick” (single)Title-track single from the sixth LP.
“Blankets”Thunder-era single (April 13, 2026); later folded into The Signatures and Disc 2 of The Variants.
“Wintergreen”Thunder-era single (April 14, 2026); also appears on Thunder in Winter’s Connecticut.
“Icarus”Opening single of the Lightning era (December 2, 2025).
“Chessboard”Closing Thunder-era single (April 15, 2026); B-sides include “Electric Rain” and “Our Little Soba Shop.”
“Jobless Bum”Holy Dick-era single (June 27, 2025); flanked by Matthew 24:27, Revelation 19:12, and the “Holy War” interlude.
NightfallEP13 (February 14, 2025). Fifteen-track B-sides compilation for Daybreak; includes “The Underdog” and “The Most Dangerous Game.”
The Art of the DealEP22 (August 16, 2025). Thirteen-interlude EP from the Holy Dick era; the “Trolley Problem,” “Latter-Day Saints,” and “Revelation 13:16–17” interludes set up the Gethsemane sequence.
Nighttime in GethsemaneEP24 (August 17, 2025). Sixteen-track special edition combining The Art of the Deal with Gethsemane; the prefatory note frames Gethsemane itself—not the Revelation—as the storm.
The Moonlight EditionLP1-D (September 13, 2024). Three-disc rerelease of the debut LP The Will to Power, pairing it with the Moonlight disc and a “B-Sides & Rarities” disc that includes “Marlon Brando,” “Amor Fati,” and “Don Draper of God.”
The Nightfall TapesEP14 (March 14, 2025). Twenty-five-interlude compilation following Nightfall; includes “The Philosopher-Regnant,” “Cicada 3301,” “On Liminality,” and “A Letter to The Anti-Christ.”
The Orange Street SessionsLA5. Twenty-four-track musicless live set posted in real time from Lin’s Orange Street apartment; closes on “Sleeping Giant” and “Tenth of December.”
The Thunder B-SidesEP26 (December 24, 2025). Christmas album and B-sides compilation closing the Thunder era; includes “Caesar by the Pepsi,” “Snowden,” “Pillow Talk,” and “Via the Rose Thorns of Christmas.”
“The Splendid Blond Beast”Will to Power-era single (August 30, 2024) anchored by the title track from LP1; B-sides include “Black Swan,” “Tenth of December,” “Amor Fati,” and “Don Draper of God.”

Fiction

“Cape Cod”Short fiction.
“Writer’s Block”Short fiction; shares its title with the Thunder-era “Writer’s Block” interlude.
The DepositionsThe comedic play featured above: Lin sues The New York Times, the Gen Z chorus is led by “Tumblerina,” and the universe repeats with slight variations so the actors honestly haven’t done this before.

Other Works

The Pure Products of AmericaThe essay collection Beacon Press canceled in 2021; modeled on Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem and the proximate cause of the messianic claim that began in January 2023.
Holy Dick in a BoxCompanion volume to the Holy Dick era; reframes the LP’s interlude architecture as a packaged box.
“Jesus Chess”Sample-based prose piece structured around six chess pieces—Pawn, Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King—each used to diagnose a different way the meek are denied authority. Samples Britney Spears’s “Outrageous.”
“In Sable and Black Robes”Essay on judicial vesture and elite consciousness.
“Who’s Afraid of Little Ol’ Me”Essay sharing its title with the Thunder-era interlude on Disc 2 of The Variants.
THR RoundtableA fictional Hollywood Reporter roundtable framed as the 2024 Gutenberg Awards Jury, featuring Jacques Dawsonerrida, the Huntress, Tumblerina, and Ace Visconti debating aesthetics, ethics, intellectual property, and whether Lin can impartially judge his own videos.
DiscographyThe master index introduced above.
“Exit Interview”Long-form fictional press conference with Jacques Dawsonerrida (sampling Taylor Swift’s “CANCELLED!”) that walks through the “two exit signs”/orange/bathtub correlations, the lightning prophecy of Matthew 24:27, and the question of what falsifies a Second Coming claim.
“Goodbye to All That”Essay on departure—from institutions, from the postmodern script, from a prior self.
“Notes from a Psychiatric Hospital”First-person essay from inside the institution.
“On Identity Politics”Essay arguing the politics of identity against a backdrop of meekness, elitism, and the “black widow prophecy.”
Oprah Interview“CBS Presents Oprah and Colson”: a fictional Oprah Winfrey interview staged in Lin’s New Haven apartment that prefigured an actual New Haven earthquake three weeks after publication. Includes the morning-after “CBS Mornings” recap segment.
“Prosody”Essay on poetic form; shares its title with the Thunder-era “Prosody” interlude.
“Three Proofs Against Pride”Essay laying out three arguments against pride as a stable spiritual posture.

All works above are public domain unless their text says otherwise. Italics denote LP and EP titles; quotation marks denote singles and shorter works.